Carmine Paolino
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Packages no longer install a fastpotify command or declare that they replace, provide or conflict with the old packages. Releases no longer carry the 0.9.1 bridge files, the release script only checks and sums Spotifast downloads, and the Flatpak, Homebrew, macOS and Windows recipes lose their old-identity branches and clean-ups. Packaging CI tests the v0.11.2 release instead of installing the 0.8.0 package first. The Rename page and the notes pointing to it are gone. Updates begun by 0.10.2 or earlier on Windows relaunch fastpotify.exe, which the installer no longer provides; such an install updates, but needs starting by hand once.
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| title | description | nav_order |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | What Spotifast stores on your computer, what it sends and to whom, and what it never collects. | 4 |
Spotifast is a desktop app that runs entirely on your computer. It has no account of its own, no server, no telemetry, no analytics, and no advertising. Its author receives nothing about you or how you use it.
This page covers the Spotifast app, version 0.8.0 and later. Earlier versions kept sign-ins in files instead of the system credential store; update to a current release.
What stays on your computer
- Spotify sign-ins. The grants Spotify issues when you sign in, and the reusable playback credential, are kept in the system credential store: Credential Manager on Windows, Keychain on macOS, and Secret Service on Linux. Your Spotify password never passes through Spotifast; you sign in on Spotify's own pages. A proxy password, if you set one, uses the same store.
- Settings and history. Settings, window positions, recent plays, the last session, skins, themes and MilkDrop presets live in the config directory.
- Caches. Downloaded audio, artwork, lyrics and library metadata live in the cache directory and can be deleted at any time.
- Log.
spotifast.logrecords errors and diagnostics. It stays on your computer and never contains credentials; share it only if you choose to attach it to a bug report.
Settings & Files lists every location and what is safe to delete. Sign out in Settings removes the stored credentials.
What is sent, and to whom
Spotifast connects only to the services below.
- Spotify. Sign-in, your library, search, playlists, playback and Spotify Connect all go to Spotify, under your account. Spotify's own privacy policy applies to that data.
- LRCLIB. When the lyrics panel is open and Spotify has no lyrics for the song, Spotifast sends its artist, title, album and length to lrclib.net. Nothing identifying you is included.
- GitHub. Once a day, Spotifast asks GitHub for the latest release. You can turn automatic checks off in Settings. Downloading an update, and the first opening of MilkDrop, also fetch files from GitHub. No Spotify data is sent.
- Your local network. Spotifast looks for Spotify Connect speakers over mDNS and talks to the ones you choose.
Links you open from the app, such as the Winamp Skin Museum or this website, open in your browser.
This website
spotifast.rocks counts page visits with Plausible, which uses no cookies and collects no personal data. The app itself contains no analytics.
Questions
Ask on GitHub.